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...surgical approach to the dealer closings probably would have worked. It might have started with a letter from the head of the car company to the local mayor. It might have included a letter to all of the people who bought a car from the dealer being closed saying that they would get a year of free oil changes at the dealer staying open in the next town. There might even have been an apology for doing something which, under normal circumstances would never have been done...
...Would be the first African-American - and the second former astronaut - to head NASA...
...controls of the space shuttle Discovery when it deployed the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990 now appears poised to steer NASA into its post-shuttle orbit. Former astronaut and retired Marine general Charles Bolden Jr. is President Obama's likely nominee to head the space agency; the two are expected to meet at the White House May 19 for a formal interview. Years before his famous Discovery flight, Bolden traveled to space with a payload specialist named Bill Nelson - now a powerful Florida Senator and one of Bolden's strongest backers. While Bolden, 62, is widely respected within the space...
Researchers who examined the death certificates and medical records found that 90% of the bullets fired in the killings landed above the waist. 197 were fired into the back, 395 hit the chest area and 229 hit the head. Most shockingly, 152 bullets were fired into the base of the skull, indicative of summary execution. "The intention was not to stop people fleeing, the intention was to kill," says Henrique Carlos Goncalves, the president of the São Paulo Regional Council of Medicine, the body that examined the death certificates. "It was a massacre." (See pictures of a papal...
...analysts are already revising India's GDP growth and corporate earnings outlooks. Chetan Ahya, economist for Morgan Stanley Asia, upgraded his growth forecast for India this year from 4.4% to 5.8%. "The markets are enthused by the current political developments after 18 years of coalition governments," says Bharat Iyer, head of India research at JP Morgan...